Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain
created by Rude Mechs
written by Kirk Lynn
designed by Thomas Graves
original music composed by Peter Stopschinski
featuring Eva Claycomb, Pete Dahlberg, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Sadé Jones, Jennifer Kidwell, Derek Kolluri, Kirk Lynn, and Kelsey Oliver
costume design by Aaron Flynn, lighting design by Brian H Scott, scenic design by Pete Dahlberg
ABOUT PERVERSE RESULTS
The Content
Perverse Results is a new performance for the stage investigating unintended consequences – those outcomes that are not foreseen or expected when we undertake an action. We’re excited to focus specifically on the perverse results (outcomes which are diametrically opposed to our intentions) that we have on the various environments we inhabit or migrate through. We’ll be interrogating themes of displacement, containment, home, neighborhood, and agency in the inherited built environment.
The Process
Rather than congregating to make one cohesive piece over time, we are splitting up into smaller creation teams and building Perverse Results in episodes that will eventually be used to create one evening of theater, or we might destroy collaboration. We don’t know.
The next episode of Perverse Results, Episode 2, is Gregariart – a noise and music excavation of the Ikea catalogue by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley. The first draft will be shared in August 2017.